Improvement in carbureters



J. STRATTON.

Carbureters.

tented Nov 6, I877.

m u mmfi m n N. PETERS, PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASNINGYON By C,

v UNITED STATES PA'rEnr QFFICEB.

JAMES STRATTON, OE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO- OSBORNCONRAD, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT lN CARBURETERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,946, dated November6, 1877; application filed December 14, 1876. j v

provement is fully set forth in the following specification andaccompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation of thecarbureter embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical sectionthereof. Fig. 3 is an end View of the air-drum and inside thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

My invention consists of an air-drum containin g perforated diaphragms,between which is confined absorbent material, in combination with aninclosing-case, which receives the carbureting -liquid, and within whichthe airdrum rotates, whereby said drum likewise constitutes thecarbureting-chamber, the freshair and carbureted-air pipes being at thesame side of the case.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a case, within which is mountedon a horizontal axis, a, an air-drum, B, consisting of a cylinder havingits heads formed of plates,-the adjacent ones of which overlap eachother with a space between them, whereby communication is had to andfrom the interior of the drum, the diameter of the cylinder being lessthan that of the case, so that there is an intervening space, B.

Within the drum there are secured two or more perforated diaphragms, O,which extend at a right angle to the axis of the drum, and the spacewithin the diaphragms will be filled or packed with absorbent materialC.

D represents an L-shaped or bent pipe, the horizontal portion of whichpasses through one wall of the case A and adjacent head of the air-drum,and the vertical portion projects upwardly near the outside of saidhead.

To the drum, on the outside of the head thereof, adjacent to the pipe D,and inclosing the vertical portion thereof, there is secured a cap, E,which has a central opening, b, greater in diameter than the axial shaftto and the horizontal portion of the pipeD, which shaft and portion passthrough said opening.

Openings d are made in the upper part of the wall of one side of thecase A for the admission of air, the wall of the opposite side beingimperforate and an opening, 6, is made in a suitable part of the casefor supplying and replenishing the apparatus with carbureting-liquid,which must fill-the case to a line 1 ing-cap E, it passes through thespace B over the drum to the opposite side, and enters the openings orspaces of the head of said side.

The carbureting-fluid introduced into the case A enters the drum throughthe opening I) of the cap E and openings or spaces of the adjacent headof the drum, so as to saturate the portion of the absorbent material Cin the drum to the level of the fluid or liquid. As the drum rotates,the absorbent material dips into the liquid, so as to be continuouslysaturated, and as the saturated portion rises above the fluid-level theair passes therethrough, and it is thus carbureted, the air also unitingwith the vapor from the body of the liquid in the cylinder, after whichthe carbureted air reaches and enters the pipe D, from whence it may bedirected elsewhere for illu-' mination or enriching other gases.

It will thus be seen that an air-drum and carbureting-chamber arecombined in one.

It will also be seen that, as the air enters the case A at one side andenters the drum on the opposite side, it traverses the length of thedrum before it is discharged, whereby the greatest amount of vapor willunite with the air, the entrance and exit being at the same side of thecase, if desired.

I am aware that it is not new-to construct a carbureter with. tworevolving drums communicating with each other, whereby there are 2 I196,946 v f duplicetion of parts, complication of mechentml dia phmgmsG; inelosing absorbent mateism, and increase of size. iial C, andclosing-cap E, all as and for the Having thus described myinvention,What I purpose set forth. claim as new and desire to secure by LettersPatent 7 JAMES STRATTON. The case A, with inlet (1 and exit-pipe I), inWitnesses: V v combination with the single air-drum B, hiw- J OHN' A.WIEDERSHEIM,

ing similar open heads at opposite ends, cen- H. E. HINDMARSH.

